Nymphs : A Complete Guide to Naturals and Their Imitations

New York:: Winchester Press, 1973. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. A clean, square copy. Inner hinges are perfect. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (9.95). Previous owner's bookplate. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Invaluable reference for fly fishermen, with lucid exposition of nymph entomology, fly-tying techniques, tackle selection and fly-presentation tactics in the field. Well illustrated with 18 full color plates and 36 black and white drawings that depict some 200 nymph varieties. The color paintings on the plates are four times actual size. This is the first printing with the error 'hatches' (rather than 'hackles') on line 5 of the Introduction's second page. By the author of MATCHING THE HATCH. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. From the Dust Jacket: "This is a book on trout that no serious fly-fisherman can afford to miss. With its eighteen full-color plates and twice as many black-and-white drawings illustrating over 200 varieties of nymphs; with thirty-five chapters covering everything from the Giant Stonefly Nymphs to the Microcaddis; with almost 300 complete descriptions of insects and a parallel number of imitative fly-patterns; with Schwiebert's rich background of angling lore and evocative descriptions of trout country in both Europe and the United States; with over 300 pages of solid and original research, this book is clearly destined to stand with the classics of fly-fishing literature... [This book is] the first comprehensive American study of the immature stages of aquatic fly-hatches that provide as much as 90 percent of the trout's normal diet.". First Printing of the First Edition.. Oversize Hardcover (heavy).. Very Good condition/Near VG DJ (edge chips).. (x), 339pp..